I did make it to Mancora despite stretching time to its limit. About 15 minutes before I was supposed to arrive at the bus terminal, I was just about finishing my lunch at a cheap restaurant in Lima. Very quickly my situation became clear and I was immidiately in a taxi back to my hostel to pick up my bags. As my Spanish became incomprehensible in my rushed state, the only way I could get the taxi to wait for me was to rudely order the girl I was sharing the taxi...

Despite having now prior plans of what to do in Lima and no idea how long I would stay, my time here has turned out to be the highlight of my trip so far. Driving through a seemingly endless urban sprawl up to my hostel in what can only be the fast food district of Lima (there is a Burger King, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, KFC and Dunkin Donuts in the visible vicinity), I wasn´t holding out much hope either. However, after settling into the hostel bar, I was invite...

Just before setting off to get the bus to Nazca, another traveler in the hostel told me of some French tourists that got killed when one of their flights over the Nazca lines crashed into the ground. This didn´t stop me emerging bleary eyed after an overnight bus and taking a lift straight to the airport. The Nazca lines are a mix of shapes and images of animals etched onto a vast dester plateau. Before the flight we watched a video of possible meanings of t...

Machu Picchu: "It looks exactly like it does in the pictures". This is what I overheard an American tourist say when they saw the ruins for the first time. Although it´s very hypocritical to mock tourists after visiting a place like Machu Picchu, but it´s certainly odd how the Incas could have build such a place so many years ago and then now there are people that can say such idiotic things, it really challenges the theory of evolution. Ameri...

After almost a month of having to live around the relaxed timekeeping in Bolivia, it should have been welcome for the bus to Cuzco to arrive early for a change. Unfortunately four in the morning is not an ideal time to arrive and I was forced to check into an almost empty hostel for the first two nights until I could get a place at one of the party hostels. Partly due to bitterness, my first day in Cuzco didn´t exactly make me warm to Peru. For the first tim...